Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • Coda

    South Brunswick pols can always make things worse Greg Bean This morning as I drove down Davidsons Mill Road in South Brunswick, past the new warehouse complex going up like a giant concrete carbuncle on the landscape, I slowed, faced the general direction of town hall and gave Mayor Frank Gambatese and the Town Council…

  • Give Edison’s new mayor some time, resident says

    I want to take you back prior to the June primary of 2005. At that time Edison had a three-way race – Democrat, Democrat/independent and Republican. The primary came, and guess what? The GOP chairman drops the Republican candidate to support the Democrat/independent candidate Bill Stephens ticket. What is going on here? Let’s look at…

  • Chamber of Commerce prez supports the mayor

    I want to commend Mayor Jun Choi’s leadership. This mayor has kept his word to the people of Edison. When allegations of police brutality were made against an officer, the mayor made sure an investigation into the claim took place. While some people called for the officer’s removal, the mayor made no judgment until the…

  • Residents should work out issues rationally

    I am an American who is of Indian background and concerned about the events and aftermath of the July Fourth incident involving Parikh Patel, Officer Dotro, illegal fireworks, unauthorized or illegal parking, and alleged police brutality. First and foremost, most of us will agree that using fireworks and parking in unauthorized or illegal areas are,…

  • Grieving family’s message to children: Don’t smoke

    On May 22 of this year, myself and my family lost the patriarch of the Worth family, my dad, Albert F. Worth Sr., to lung cancer and emphysema. It would be his 60 years of smoking that took his life from us. Lately, I’ve been looking at what the destructive power cigarettes and other forms…

  • Obituaries

    Stanley Willsky Mr. Willsky, of East Brunswick, formerly of Edison, died Aug. 5 in Applegarth Care Center, Monroe. A biostatistician with Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville section of Lawrence, for 30 years, he served on the East Brunswick Advisory Health Council for many years. Surviving are his wife, Rhoda Lipman Willsky; a son, Gregg, and a daughter,…

  • Problems delay school opening by several days

    Plans call for students in all four schools to start on Sept. 11 BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN – Students will be heading back to school a few days later than originally planned, because of construction delays at Metuchen High School. “The greatest obstacle for when you open an old…

  • Obituaries

    Elliot Klempner Mr. Klempner, 74, of Lake Hiawatha, died Aug. 3 at Compassionate Care Hospice, Dover. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and had lived in Irvington and Union, as well as in Puerto Rico, before moving to Lake Hiawatha in 1980. A decorated Army veteran of the Korean War, he was the sole survivor…

  • Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t

    In most towns, the citizenry gives a new public official a decent period of time to prove himself or herself before they start storming town hall with flaming torches, like the villagers in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” That’s in most towns. But this is Edison. The torches were lit even before Jun Choi, Edison’s first Korean…